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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

What Field Engineers Actually Do

• Layout & verification support
  Confirm dimensions, control lines, benchmarks, and elevations before work starts.

• RFI support (not ownership)
  Identify conflicts, gather facts, and route clear questions to the right people.

• Submittal awareness
  Know what’s due, what’s approved, and what’s holding work up — so the field isn’t surprised.

• Progress documentation
  Maintain daily logs, photos, quantities, and manpower snapshots that reflect reality.

• Coordination follow-up
  Close loops with trades on next steps, access, and constraints.

• Document control
  Make sure work is built from current drawings — every time.

• Pre-install verification
  Confirm details before installation to prevent rework and delays.

Reality:

Field Engineers save projects by catching issues early and quietly.

The Core Skills Field Engineers Must Build 

• Drawing navigation: sheet index, details, sections, callouts, schedules

• Basic construction math: scale, dimensions, elevations, tolerances

• Field communication: ask, confirm, close the loop

• Problem triage: “Is this urgent, important, or noise?”

The 90-Day Reality Check for a Field Engineer

First 30 days:
You’re overwhelmed. You’re learning where everything is. You don’t know what’s “normal.”

Days 31–60:

Trust forms. You’re given small areas or scopes. You stop reacting and start anticipating.

The goal:
Become the person people rely on for clean, accurate information- without the babysitting.

Common Mistakes That Stall Field Engineers

• Building from old drawings

• Guessing instead of verifying

• Writing unclear RFIs

• Avoiding the field

• Letting open issues drift